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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>New Advent</title><description>These stories have been handpicked from blogs and news sites around the Web -- some Catholic, some not.</description><link>https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml</link><atom:link href="https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5833580889358585945</guid><category>Head</category><title>Mexico City Government Projects Pro-Abortion Images on Cathedral’s Façade...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265411/mexico-city-government-projects-pro-abortion-images-on-cathedral-s-facade</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The Metropolitan Cathedral’s communications office in Mexico City expressed its dissatisfaction with the projection of pro-abortion messages on the façade of the church during a show organized by the capital city’s government.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2129912950582077993</guid><category>Left</category><title>‘Archbishop Harold Holmes’: Pop Art from Jack White, John C. Reilly, and Flannery O’Connor...</title><link>https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/archbishop-harold-holmes-pop-art-from-jack-white-john-c-reilly-and-flannery-oconnor/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Damian Ference)</author><description>In this Year of Our Lord 2025, we celebrate both the Jubilee Year of Hope and Flannery O’Connor’s one hundredth birthday. No doubt more Catholics are celebrating the former, but the two are related, as O’Connor was a devout Catholic, and although her fiction is dark, violent, grotesque, and unsettling, her ultimate vision is one of hope. America’s greatest Catholic writer, born on the feast of the Annunciation...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4276190151790416675</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Ancient Temple’s Hidden ‘Bread of the Presence’ Reveals a Stunning Eucharistic Truth...</title><link>https://adoremus.org/2025/07/the-jewish-roots-of-the-catholic-altar-the-golden-table-part-ii/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The second altar from Jewish Scripture that prefigures the Catholic altar is probably less familiar to most people than the bronze altar we examined in Part 1 of this series. Here in Part 2, we will focus on the “golden table” of the “Bread of the Presence.” 1 Like the bronze altar of sacrifice, this golden table was located in the Tabernacle of Moses. Unlike the bronze altar, the “Table of Showbread” (as it is sometimes called) was not in the outer courtyard, but in the inner sanctuary of the Holy Place.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-139714342439025973</guid><category>Left</category><title>God loves repetitive prayer. The next time someone says otherwise, just show him this Psalm...</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/jesus-wants-repetitive-prayer</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>It is not from Fundamentalist TV preachers that we should receive direction on how to pray. We should learn how to pray from heaven itself and the divine instructions provided in Scripture and Sacred Tradition. Both heaven and divine revelation teach us how to pray, and the practice of repetition is part of that instruction. Prayer is more than just asking God to give us things or do things for us...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7743309491419777643</guid><category>Center</category><title>Don’t Panic: A Step-by-Step Guide on What to Do When Your Airline Loses Your Bag (and How to Get Paid)...</title><link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/2025/07/16/what-to-do-airline-lost-bag-cruising-altitude/84430623007/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>You arrive on vacation and you’re waiting for your bags to show up on the belt. You wait. And you wait. And you wait some more. And eventually you realize they’re not coming. Your bags have been lost, or at least delayed (I’ll explain the difference later). Now what? As frustrating as it can be, you shouldn’t panic, and you definitely shouldn’t yell at any of the airline employees who are on hand to help you...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7760460533874314497</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Many Hidden Saints of Kent: Holy Men and Women Who Remain ‘Powerful Intercessors’...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/features/little-known-saints-of-kent</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Edward Pentin)</author><description>“It’s like an epicenter of holiness,” said Canon Marcus Holden, “like several continents put together, all in one little place.” Canon Holden, who formally established the Shrine of St. Augustine of Canterbury in Ramsgate in 2012, was referring to the “remarkable” Catholic history of the county of Kent in England, an area slightly smaller than Rhode Island but with close links to possibly as many as 80 saints...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4137223009995251273</guid><category>Center</category><title>How St. Camillus Beat Addiction to Sin and Became a Servant of the Sick...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/griffin-st-camillus-de-lellis</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614) was a priest who spent the majority of his ministry caring for the sick and suffering. However, his early life had a rocky path. He was known to have a bad temper and a strong will that made him difficult to be around. By the age of 12, he was hanging around groups of friends who were not living the virtuous life. He quickly became addicted to gambling and struggled with the temptation for much of his early life...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1008335874930584691</guid><category>Left</category><title>This Sunday’s Gospel: Martha, Mary, Abraham — and Mass...</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-when-the-lord-comes-to-dinner-on-martha-mary-abraham-and-mass</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Tom Hoopes)</author><description>Jesus comes over for dinner to the home of friends in the Gospel reading for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C, and one host, Mary, we are told, “sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak,” while her sister Martha “burdened with much serving, came to him and said, ‘Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me.’” The story is simple but endlessly instructive.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8386360301240240769</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Red Cross, Perverse Mercy, and a Crime Against Nature...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-red-cross-perverse-mercy-and</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Ed Condon)</author><description>Happy Friday, friends, and a very happy feast of St. Camillus de Lellis to you. Camillus was the founder of the Camillian order in service to the sick. Born in the Kingdom of Naples in 1550, the future saint appears to have been raised mostly by his father, who was himself a professional soldier serving, as best I can tell, if not the highest bidder then at least more than one master...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7525867997320682603</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Calls Cardinal Pizzaballa About Attack on Gaza Church...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-middle-east/2025/07/pope-leo-xiv-calls-cardinal-pizzaballa-about-attack-on-gaza-church</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Charles Collins)</author><description>On Friday, Pope Leo XIV spoke to Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, about the situation in the Gaza Strip, where on Thursday the area’s only Catholic church was hit by a shell from an Israeli tank, killing three people. Several others were injured, including Father Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of the church.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9111532569059074545</guid><category>Center</category><title>‘You Are Gods’: The Catholic Doctrine of Divinization Is Making a Comeback...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/theology-of-deification-east-west-pope-leo-xiv</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jonathan Liedl)</author><description>When Grace Simcox came across the concept of deification last year, the Catholic theology student thought she might be dealing with something more pagan than Christian. The Franciscan University undergrad was debating her now-boyfriend, an Eastern Orthodox catechumen, and wasn’t sure if his constant emphasis on how the Christian life was aimed at theosis, or becoming like God, squared with her Catholic commitments — or if it did at all.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-67996100238328886</guid><category>Left</category><title>Lord in the Ring? Catholicism and Bullfighting in Portugal...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/lord-in-the-ring-catholicism-and</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Filip D’Avillez)</author><description>The Church of Our Lady of the Castle commands an impressive view over the rural town of Coruche, which is about an hour’s drive from Lisbon, Portugal. Towards the end of the town you can clearly make out the impressive local bullring. António Ribeiro Telles knows both local landmarks well. The Ribeiro Telles family name is synonymous with bullfighting in Portugal. António and his two brothers are third generation bullfighters, and his own son and several nephews are carrying the torch into the fourth.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6276248050912206770</guid><category>Center</category><title>Dao Lu, Brave Anti-Abortion Buddhist Monk, Jailed by Chinese Communists (Who Have a Reputation for Lying About Charges Like This)...</title><link>https://bitterwinter.org/dao-lu-hero-or-villain-anti-abortion-buddhist-monk-detained-in-china/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The story of a well-known anti-abortion Buddhist monk has sparked considerable discussion among Chinese internet users. Some people support the government’s criticism of the monk, Dao Lu, believing he is a fraud. However, others think he has been wrongfully accused after challenging the government with his campaigns, which highlight that, despite the government’s focus on population issues and financial support for having children, many poor women in China still feel pushed to have abortions or abandon their babies.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4508453145631256247</guid><category>Left</category><title>Monastic Luxe: The Style Pendulum Has Swung Back to Timeless Patterns, Rustic Wood, and a Vibe of the Sacred...</title><link>https://theologyofhome.substack.com/p/trending-monastic-luxe</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Carrie Gress)</author><description>My family and I recently had lunch with friends on their Virginia farm. As I stepped out of the car, summer heat scented with lavender and the Mediterranean style home in yellow stucco immediately took me back to the many months I spent in Provence during and just after college. The husband explained that despite his modest earnings, his family lived on an expansive farm with breathtaking views because of the generosity of his parents...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8193778803823362373</guid><category>Center</category><title>Scott Hahn and Rob Corzine: Why the Old Testament Still Matters...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/07/scott-hahn-and-rob-corzine-why-old.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Does the New Testament completely replace the Old and is the Catholic Church’s stance anti-semitic in nature?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4190325876696839529</guid><category>Left</category><title>More scandal surrounding a high-profile Catholic personality. For all of us, it’s a call to reflection.....</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/07/another-high-profile-catholic.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Brian Holdsworth)</author><description>A recent scandal involving a high-profile Catholic personality has shaken many faithful. In this video, I explore the dangers of Catholic influencer culture, the spiritual risks it poses, and the serious responsibility that comes with any form of public evangelization. This is a call for deeper discernment, accountability, and reform...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1102483857576669872</guid><category>Center</category><title>This Is the Heart of the Matter.....</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/07/16/the-heart-of-the-matter/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Francis X. Maier)</author><description>When an ambitious man is young, his thinking is a race car. It runs full throttle toward the target of success, however he imagines it. Men of more senior years, with fewer ticks left on the clock, think differently. The mind turns to making sense of things; to getting to the heart of the matter of one’s time in the world. The task becomes ordering a riot of random memories into a coherent story; the fabric of a life that has meaning...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1125496782663810114</guid><category>Left</category><title>Losing Sleep Over 'Educating' Our Children...</title><link>https://life-craft.org/losing-sleep-over-educating-our-children/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (John Cuddeback)</author><description>My father-in-law once explained why he wanted to ‘homeschool’ when almost no one else in the state was doing so. “I wanted my children to be like their mother rather than like the teachers in the schools.” Whether this was or is the best practical conclusion, it in any case indicates a key starting point: education is much more than academics. To ‘homeschool’ or not and for how long is but one important question for parents in a broader project at the heart of marriage and household...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-164665826935917244</guid><category>Center</category><title>Cardinal Pizzaballa says ‘not sure’ whether Israeli attack on Catholic church was accident or retaliation against Christians...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pizzaballa-not-sure-gaza-parish-strike</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem have strongly condemned the shelling Thursday of the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza. While the Israeli government has said that tank fire on the Gaza parish on July 17 was not deliberate, Cardinal Pierrebattista Pizzaballa has expressed doubts.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3992343039751492424</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Demands Ceasefire After Deadly Israeli Strike on Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic Church...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265391/pope-leo-xiv-demands-ceasefire-after-deadly-attack-on-catholic-parish-in-gaza</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Following an airstrike against the Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Church in Gaza, which left at least two dead on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV issued an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire. In a telegram signed on the pope’s behalf by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the pontiff expressed his “deep sadness” over the military attack and offered his prayers...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1854344402972450740</guid><category>Center</category><title>‘Take My Yoke’: Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Reveals Brown Scapular’s Enduring Spiritual Power...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/father-kirby-brown-scapular</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>As we celebrate the “scapular feast” of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, we are invited to draw closer to the Lord Jesus through the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Brown Scapular is one of many sacramentals in the life of the Church that are meant to help us in the spiritual life.In the early Church, Christian hermits followed the example of the Old Testament prophets and prayed and fasted on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land. </description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3010167358601695893</guid><category>Left</category><title>Weird ‘Yeti Blood Oath’ Prank Divides Denver’s St. John Vianney Seminary...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/yeti-blood-oath-divides-denver-seminary</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Clergy in the Archdiocese of Denver are divided over the handling of a controversial “blood oath” ceremony involving a vice rector and seminarians during a ski trip last year. A group of seminarians studying at Denver’s St. John Vianney Theological Seminary were taken on the trip in January 2024 by then-vice rector of the seminary, Fr. John Nepil, during which they were woken in the middle of the night and invited individually to swear a “blood oath” in a ceremony involving a dagger and a man in a yeti costume.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5919516454234215016</guid><category>Center</category><title>Lincoln Bishop James Conley Has the Care of 75,000 Catholics — and 10,000 Bees...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/interview/bishop-conley-the-beekeeper</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>For Bishop James Conley, of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, there is peace in wild things. In addition to his pastoral duties, Bishop Conley is the caretaker of more than 10,000 bees in two hives — a pastime that he now uses to help educate, and demonstrate, a care and concern for the environment that could have a massive impact on the next generation’s relationship with God’s creation. And that’s an education that is desperately needed...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2732689798427968927</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV’s Hometown of Dolton, Illinois, Buys His Childhood Home, Eyes Historic Landmark...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265141/pope-leo-xivs-hometown-votes-to-purchase-his-childhood-home</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The village of Dolton purchased Pope Leo XIV’s boyhood home for $375,000 on Tuesday, July 8, after the village board unanimously approved its purchase at a special meeting the week before. Newly-elected Dolton Mayor Jason House said on July 10 that a steering committee would be formed in order to plan how to manage the property, which will become a historic site open to the public. He said the committee would then “lay out the plans to trustees and the community.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6874043104805367842</guid><category>Center</category><title>King Charles III’s Annual Swan Census Begins on the River Thames...</title><link>https://apnews.com/article/king-charles-swan-upping-census-britain-b1da5b71b831577f2600d7e3530f83d5</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Scarlet uniforms flashed against the riverbank. Wooden skiffs glided in formation. A young swan, gently lifted from the water, was measured, inspected and released. The annual five-day census of swans belonging to King Charles III – known as Swan Upping -- began Monday on the River Thames to assess their health. One of the British monarch’s less-known titles is Seigneur of the Swans — Lord of the Swans — and according to ancient lore, he or she owns all members of the mute swan species found in Britain’s open waters.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8422666317549008092</guid><category>Left</category><title>Can Your Brain Run Out of Memory?</title><link>https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/can-your-brain-run-out-of-memory</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>You can use up all the storage on your phone or max out your computer's drive, but can you use up all the memory space in your brain?Despite how you might feel before an exam or after a sleepless night before a work deadline, neuroscientists say that for a typical, healthy brain, memory capacity isn't fixed or easily used up.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6516780465694751830</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pure Courage in the Christian Tradition: Knowing St. Kateri Tekakwitha and Her Living Legacy...</title><link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/pure-courage-in-the-christian-tradition-saint-kateri-tekakwitha-and-the-women-of-auriesville-n-y/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Kathryn Jean Lopez)</author><description>Watch some of the women who work and volunteer in Auriesville, N.Y., in action for even an hour of their lives, and you won’t doubt they live that mantra. And with an all-important sense of perspective — as they are on missions to find a relic of the True Cross for veneration to make a pilgrim’s miracle thanksgiving complete or to pick up hot dogs and buns for an anniversary event barbecue...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8371164746784272452</guid><category>Left</category><title>Waiting on the Lord: A Reflection on the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/waiting-on-the-lord-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-sixteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Scott Hahn)</author><description>God wants to dwell with each of us personally, intimately—as the mysterious guests once visited Abraham’s tent, as Jesus once entered the home of Mary and Martha. By his hospitality in this week’s First Reading, Abraham shows us how we are to welcome the Lord into our lives. His selfless service of his divine guests (see Hebrews 13:1) stands in contrast to the portrait of Martha drawn in this week’s Gospel.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6807533770716092751</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Floods Still Speak: Baptism, Chaos, and the Saving Hand of God...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/07/15/waters-deadly-and-domesticated/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Raymond de Souza)</author><description>The floodplains of the Guadalupe River in Texas seem to be a place of elevated Biblical literacy. I imagine then that when the raging waters brought death and destruction, more than a few turned to Psalm 69. That psalm will be prayed at daily Mass today. And more than a few congregants, and perhaps a few preachers, will think about those who were overwhelmed by the floods in Texas...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5416368142166658991</guid><category>Left</category><title>SSPX Investigated for Theft and Damage After Removing Altar and Furnishings From French Church...</title><link>https://thecatholicherald.com/article/sspx-investigated-of-theft-and-damage-after-removing-altar-and-furnishings-from-french-church</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) has removed furniture from a dilapidated church in Vaucluse, southeastern France. The group, made up of a priest and around a dozen SSPX faithful, is said to have been given authority by the municipality. However, the diocese was not consulted.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-198095771057988011</guid><category>Center</category><title>Plans in Train to Exhume Holy Remains of Martyr St. Thomas More...</title><link>https://thecatholicherald.com/article/plans-in-train-to-exhume-holy-remains-of-martyr-st-thomas-more</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>St Dunstan’s Church in Canterbury has revealed plans to exhume and preserve the remains of Catholic martyr Sir Thomas More. The plan is to put the centuries-old holy relic on display, before placing it in a shrine in 2035, lining up with the 500th anniversary of More’s execution. More was Henry VIII's lord chancellor but was best known for defying the King and was executed for treason in 1535 in Tower Hill, London.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5509908538086211630</guid><category>Left</category><title>Poland Leads Europe in Priestly Vocations as 208 Set for Ordination in 2025...</title><link>https://thecatholicherald.com/article/poland-leads-europe-in-priestly-vocations-as-208-set-for-ordination-in-2025</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Poland is set to ordain 208 men to the sacred priesthood this year, the highest number of any European country. A total of 141 men will be ordained for the diocesan priesthood. The Archdiocese of Warsaw, the country’s second largest by Catholic population, is set to ordain 12 men. However, the diocese with the largest number of new priests will be the Diocese of Tarnów, in the south of Poland, which will ordain 13 men.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7811072744903492710</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology of Happiness...</title><link>https://thomisticinstitute.org/sed-contra/21f1mw7ex69c2d1a9ogi45uej2dk4r</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Christopher Kaczor)</author><description>It is 2008, it is my 16th wedding anniversary, and I am walking into the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to pray for a miracle. I am about to turn in my letter of resignation from a dream job in Washington, DC. I am about to give up a forty percent raise, wonderful friends, and the best parish I have ever joined. So, I make my way past various side chapels until I find the statute of Our Lady of Sorrows. I kneel down. I am in tears. I pray for a last-minute miracle...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6890482904069073870</guid><category>Left</category><title>Convents and Monasteries Are Becoming Popular Retreats for Gen Z Women...</title><link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/07/gen-z-at-the-nunnery/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>‘I feel the nuns have been expecting us. They knew our last nerve would disappear at some point.” The quote is from a piece in Vice. (How perfect is that?!) “Gen Z Women Are Booking Convents Instead of Beach Houses This Summer.” The subhead reads: “Move over, shared beach houses and Aperol spritzes. This summer, a growing number of Gen Z women are checking into Catholic convents and monasteries instead — on purpose.” They are not staying for good...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8419620898281292544</guid><category>Center</category><title>A Catholic Reading List for Midsummer Merriment...</title><link>https://es.lincolndiocese.org/news/diocesan-news/18901-humanities-syllabus-for-june-midsummer-merriment</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Bishop James Conley)</author><description>Summer is a time of rest and fun, and, with it, our Jubilee Year pilgrimage reaches its halfway mark. Midsummer Eve, the midway point of an historically longer summer season and also of the entire year, has been traditionally observed with bonfires (literally bone-fires) on June 23, the eve of the Nativity of John the Baptist. According to ancient reckoning, it was the time of the summer solstice, when the sun was at its full strength...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7736204991882595698</guid><category>Left</category><title>Why Do Catholics Keep Body Parts and Other Memories of Saints? A Beginner’s Guide to Relics...</title><link>https://weirdcatholic.substack.com/p/relics-an-introduction</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Thomas McDonald)</author><description>St. Catherine of Siena is counted among the thirty-seven Doctors of the Church and is one of the most respected and revered woman in all church history. She was a mostly-illiterate laywoman, a third-order Dominican who worked among the sick and poor. She is revered not only for her deep piety and spiritual wisdom, but for using her supernatural skills of persuasion to mediate conflicts among the most powerful men of the 14th century...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-381335109486684824</guid><category>Center</category><title>After Texas Flood, Families and Faith Camps Face Hard Truths About a Beloved Summer Tradition...</title><link>https://tmattingly.substack.com/p/crossroads-challenges-for-small-camps</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Terry Mattingly)</author><description>Most of the Lone Star State is, and I note this as a prodigal Texan, a large slab of sun-baked concrete. But there is one small, strategic, complex and almost magical exception to that rule — the Texas Hill Country. The region is defined by the Guadalupe River and the rocky plateau around Kerrville. The prevailing winds come from West Texas and even New Mexico. Consider these numbers...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8888761608640466248</guid><category>Left</category><title>Rome Readies for Jubilee of Youth: ‘You Will Never Experience Anything Like This Again’...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265325/rome-readies-for-jubilee-of-youth-you-will-never-experience-anything-like-this-again</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>With less than a month to go before the Jubilee of Youth begins, the pope’s diocese is making final preparations to welcome tens of thousands of young people from around the world who will participate in this event of great spiritual significance. “Young people will never experience this in their lives again. I’m sure of it. In practice, it will be like a World Youth Day,” explained Father Alfredo Tedesco, director of youth ministry in Rome, the host diocese.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2600257035737238525</guid><category>Center</category><title>Lonely Planet’s 23 Best Beaches in America...</title><link>https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/best-beaches-usa</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>From sea to shining sea, the USA features coasts and lakes that are littered with glorious stretches of sand. As well as the superstars grabbing the limelight (hello, Venice Beach), you'll find tucked-away, small-town gems that are the perfect location for a relaxing time with friends.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5613796525115082792</guid><category>Left</category><title>How One Monk Began Rebuilding the West...</title><link>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/07/prosper-gueranger-r-jared-staudt.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (R. Jared Staudt)</author><description>July 11 is the feast of St. Benedict and the anniversary of the refounding of St. Peter’s Abbey of Solesmes, France in 1833 by Ven. Dom Prosper Guéranger and five other priests. Apart from the Benedictines, you may wonder why this event has significance. Solesmes became a great center of renewal for the entire Church and its refounding brought forward a larger-than-life figure, who would oversee this renewal. Guéranger (1805-1875), originally a diocesan priest...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9045967585401780199</guid><category>Center</category><title>Despite Vatican agreement, China continues to arrest priests, nuns and faithful who refuse to join CCPA.....</title><link>https://bitterwinter.org/wenzhou-new-crackdown-on-catholic-conscientious-objectors/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV is reportedly deliberating on the future of the recently renewed Vatican-China deal from 2018. Meanwhile, authorities in Beijing are intensifying their crackdown on Catholic conscientious objectors who oppose the agreement. They are part of an underground church that, in theory, should have merged with the government-controlled Patriotic Catholic Church and ceased to exist. In the southeastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, particularly within the Diocese of Wenzhou...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7994418341191955816</guid><category>Left</category><title>How the Parents of St. Thérèse Can Help You Raise Children for Heaven...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/griffin-sts-louis-and-zelie-martin</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Parenting advice is offered by many. You can find no lack of resources online or in books that claim to know the secret for how to raise your children best. For Catholics, we are blessed to have the witness of the saints to guide us. They shine a light on how we are called to live, and they reveal what happens to those around us when we make Jesus the center of our lives. Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin were the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5665013804250748474</guid><category>Center</category><title>Prefecture of the Papal Household Poised for Renewal Under Leo XIV...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/prefecture-of-the-papal-household-poised-for-renewal-under-leo-xiv</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Andrea Gagliarducci)</author><description>The post of prefect of the Papal Household has been vacant since the Vatican’s brief announcement in June 2023 that Archbishop Georg Gänswein’s term had ended the previous February. But in effect, the position has been unfilled since 2020, when Pope Francis asked Archbishop Gänswein not to return to work. Since then, the Prefecture of the Papal Household has been managed by the No. 2 in command, or regent, Msgr. Leonardo Sapienza. Now, however, Pope Leo XIV appears poised to appoint a new prefect.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2456807282171653080</guid><category>Left</category><title>Your Peace Is Getting Hijacked. Here’s the Fix.....</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/07/your-peace-is-getting-hijacked-heres-fix.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Chris Stefanick)</author><description>Your brain is hardwired to look for threats. That’s great if you’re in a jungle being chased by a bear. Not so great when you’re trying to live in the peace Jesus died to give you. In Week 2 of our Living Peace summer series, I delve into the real reason why so many of us are stuck in fear, outrage, and constant conflict, and how Jesus flips the script in one of His most famous parables: the Good Samaritan...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2562691941093329891</guid><category>Center</category><title>Fr. James Martin’s Homosophistry Takes Advantage of a Clear Double Standard...</title><link>https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/07/10/fr-james-martins-homosophistry-takes-advantage-of-a-clear-double-standard/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Larry Chapp)</author><description>I am not a “traditionalist”. At least not in the sense that the term has come to mean these days in common ecclesial parlance. I have sharp theological disagreements with the theological tendencies among some traditionalists on a range of issues. Nevertheless, they are a part of the Church, and their concerns should not be trivialized as unimportant or summarily dismissed via the pathway of lazy and breezy caricatures of them as just a gaggle of “anti-Vatican II” malcontents.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2992249311057670807</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Decline of Liberal Catholicism...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/07/13/the-decline-of-liberal-catholicism/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>When I was ordained a priest in 1985, my first pastor was about to turn 50 years old; he was a member of the Ordination Class of 1962. He saw himself and others saw him too as a “Vatican II” priest. There were meetings galore, a lot of “co-ministry” with women Religious, and, in discussions, frequent references to the marginalized and minorities of various kinds...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4862133571921058681</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope’s Sunday Angelus at Castel Gandolfo: ‘To Live Eternally, We Do Not Need to Cheat Death, But to Serve Life’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-07/pope-leo-xiv-angelus-castel-gandolfo-love-eternal-life.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>As his summer holidays continue in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV joined pilgrims who came out to the hilltop town near Rome in praying the traditional Marian prayer of the Angelus. In his address to those gathered in Freedom Square, the Pope reflected on the question put to Jesus in the Gospel...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5733645410413405944</guid><category>Left</category><title>This Sunday, See Christ and Be Christ By Receiving Christ, the Good Samaritan...</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-see-christ-and-be-christ-by-receiving-christ-the-good-samaritan</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>A scholar asks Jesus a key question to begin the Gospel reading this Sunday: “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus asks him “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” in other words, “You don’t need me to tell you what the purpose of life is. You already know it.” The man answers: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Exactly, says Jesus...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-991486037371755580</guid><category>Center</category><title>5 Key Symbols of Grace in the Bible...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/5-key-symbols-of-grace-in-the-bible?mc_cid=910f481191&amp;mc_eid=76031b1787</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Clement Harrold)</author><description>There are many different ways to define grace. One simple way of thinking about it is as a divine gift. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains, “Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life” (1996). Every hour of every day, God is sending us free gifts to help us on our journey back to Him. And throughout the Scriptures, He provides us with a host of symbols which help convey the beauty and the power of this amazing grace.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6084269634081697818</guid><category>Left</category><title>This Flemish Renaissance Artist Painted Bugs Like Jewels — And Changed Science Forever...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/07/this-flemish-renaissance-artist-painted.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Produced in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5436568861118726203</guid><category>Center</category><title>Want biblical proof for the Catholic Eucharist? Read the Book of Revelation, and consider the end of the world.....</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-eucharist-and-the-apocalypse</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Joe Heschmeyer)</author><description>On Easter morning, two disciples of Jesus are on their way from Jerusalem back to Emmaus. They might be husband and wife, but the text doesn’t say for certain. St. Luke names only one of the two: Cleopas. If they are a married couple, they might be Jesus’ aunt and uncle. (Hegesippus, a Christian writer from the second century, references “the Lord’s uncle, Clopas.”) If Cleopas and Clopas are the same person...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6216084235266295362</guid><category>Left</category><title>Apologetics Alone Is Never Enough...</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/why-apologetics-alone-is-never-enough/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jeff Mirus)</author><description>Catholic apologetics—that is, the careful argumentation for the veracity of the Catholic faith—is an important tool in spreading the Gospel, but by itself it is rarely enough to convert anyone. This frustrating reality presents a challenge that we may not always know how to meet. Let’s take a few minutes to understand the nature of the problem...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6277143890938406613</guid><category>Center</category><title>In Viral Letter, Famed Liberation Theologian Repudiates ‘Social Issues’ Focus: ‘Proclaim Jesus Christ and His Grace’...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265323/former-liberation-theology-leader-calls-on-latin-american-bishops-to-change-tune</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Friar Clodovis Boff has written an open letter to the bishops of the Latin American and Caribbean Bishops’ Council (CELAM, by its Spanish acronym), who recently met in assembly, asking: “What good news did I read there? Forgive my frankness: None. You, bishops of CELAM, always repeat the same old story: social issues, social issues, and social issues. And this has been going on for more than fifty years.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-517954736996517695</guid><category>Left</category><title>A Pilgrimage to Częstochowa...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/07/12/a-pilgrimage-to-czestochowa/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Across hundreds of miles in Poland, the land is flat. Likewise, Częstochowa, though the monastery which houses the miraculous icon of the Black Madonna sits atop a hill. The choice of the site probably had much to do with its defensibility. It’s the only monastery that I have visited which has ramparts. The one hundred Pauline monks – named for St. Paul the Hermit c. A.D. 345 – who live there, as well as an extensive cadre of sisters, staff the premises...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3754577315992504862</guid><category>Center</category><title>A Step-by-Step Guide to Praying Like Jesus...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/07/a-step-by-step-guide-to-praying-like.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Prayer is so powerful that it’s actually life-changing. And here’s the best part: God really delights in every moment you spend talking with Him. But how exactly did Jesus pray, and what can His prayer life teach us about drawing close to the Father? In this episode of The Chris Stefanick Show, I sit down with seminary professor Scott Powell to journey through Jesus’ prayer life, from the blazing summit of the Transfiguration to the raw honesty of the Psalms...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1607576266194056439</guid><category>Left</category><title>Hope Against Hope: A Priest’s Tale Made for the Movies...</title><link>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/07/hope-priests-tale-movies-condemned-andy-fowler-david-deavel.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (David Deavel)</author><description>If you’re looking for a short, punchy thriller with a spiritual component as well as physical action, Andy Fowler’s 2024 novella, The Condemned is probably for you. Inspired by the story of a nameless priest murdered while ministering in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, this tale of an American priest in a small, northern Mexican town starts with cartel violence and ends with cartel violence...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2415316168473076625</guid><category>Center</category><title>Will Leo XIV Weigh in on France’s Criminal Chancellor?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/will-leo-weigh-in-on-frances-criminal</link><author>null@newadvent.org (J.D. Flynn)</author><description>A French archbishop is standing by his decision to appoint as chancellor a priest who was convicted of raping a 16-year-old boy, and who spent four years in prison for the offense. While Archbishop Guy de Kerimel of Toulouse argues that appointing the priest to a prominent archdiocesan position is an act of mercy, Catholics in France and the U.S. seem skeptical, with some asking why Fr. Dominique Spina is eligible for any diocesan assignment at all.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1579230796211261666</guid><category>Left</category><title>Alleged Apparitions in Slovakia: What’s the Vatican Saying?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/alleged-apparitions-in-slovakia-whats</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Luke Coppen)</author><description>The Vatican’s doctrinal office gave the green light Wednesday to devotion associated with alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Slovakia. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published July 9 a letter from its prefect, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, approving a declaration of nihil obstat (“nothing stands in the way”) for the Marian devotion connected with Mount Zvir, located in northern Slovakia, close to the Polish border.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2197769757812464104</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pax, French Clericalism, and American Iconography...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pax-french-clericalism-and-american</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Happy Friday friends, and a happy feast of St. Benedict to you all. I am back after having taken last week off, though unfortunately this season’s edition of covid meant we had to turn around and come home after only a day away. I‘d been looking forward to this particular vacation for a while, and I nursed a certain sense of undirected injustice as we drove home early, that we’d been cheated of something we had coming to us, as a family...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4715564409050678207</guid><category>Left</category><title>Bishops Draw the Line at Border Wall Expansion...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/bishops-draw-the-line-at-border-wall-expansion</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Congress has, after much debate and delay, passed a sprawling budget bill, colloquially termed the “big beautiful” bill. Among other expenditures, the bill devotes roughly $46.5 billion to new segments of the border wall, along with another approximately $120 billion to other Department of Homeland Security and immigration-enforcement infrastructure, including the expansion of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). </description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5454356859428716582</guid><category>Center</category><title>Diocese of San Bernardino Grants Sunday Mass Dispensation to Those Fearing Deportation...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265303/san-bernardino-diocese-grants-sunday-mass-dispensation-to-those-fearing-deportation</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Bishop Alberto Rojas of the diocese of San Bernardino, California has granted a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass for those within the diocese who fear deportation. The bishop said all of the faithful within the diocese who possess “genuine fear” of arrest while attending Mass are dispensed from the obligation until further notice, and are "encouraged to maintain their spiritual communion with Christ and His Church through acts of personal prayer.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2088497459804099325</guid><category>Left</category><title>Priests of West Bank’s only remaining all-Christian town issue urgent appeal against Israeli settler violence...</title><link>https://catholicvote.org/priests-of-west-banks-only-remaining-all-christian-town-issue-urgent-appeal-against-israeli-settler-violence/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The three priests of Taybeh in the West Bank issued an urgent appeal for justice this week after Israeli settlers reportedly escalated their acts of violence and intimidation against Christians in the region’s only remaining all-Christian town. “We, the priests of the three churches of Taybeh — the Greek Orthodox Church, the Latin Church, and the Melkite Greek Catholic Church — raise our voices on behalf of the people of our town and our parishioners to strongly condemn the ongoing and grave series of attacks targeting Taybeh,” the three pastors wrote in a letter.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2474016373238306405</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Shares Message to Pilgrims at Historic Mass in Canterbury Cathedral...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/canterbury-catholic-mass-st-thomas-beckett-church-of-england</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Catholic faithful packed Canterbury Cathedral on Monday evening for a historic Mass, complete with a papal blessing and the Eucharistic liturgy celebrated by the apostolic nuncio to honor St. Thomas Becket and the translation of his relics in 1220. Since at least the late 20th century, the Cathedral’s Anglican leaders have allowed the local Catholic parish of St. Thomas of Canterbury to celebrate the translation (transferal) of the relics every July 7 with a Mass at the high altar.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3933162483160201813</guid><category>Left</category><title>That’s Some Bad Fish Story – Spielberg’s “Jaws” Turns 50...</title><link>https://www.dominicanajournal.org/thats-one-bad-fish-story-spielbergs-jaws-turns-50/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>There’s nothing like a good fish tale. Man grappling with nature. The allure of the vast ocean. The earnest exaggerations of a man with skin sunburnt and leathered by time. And this summer one of our era’s biggest and boldest fish tales turns 50. Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, an adaptation of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name, has now terrified beachgoers for five decades. And while the title typically conjures up images of bloodied shorelines, gripping dolly-zooms, and small-town woes...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3320824851873304941</guid><category>Center</category><title>We Don’t Just Choose Right or Wrong — Our Moral Choices Make Us Who We Are...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/07/10/truly-becoming-ourselves/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Human beings, having a rational nature, are free to choose between good and evil. This freedom constitutes, in the words of Pope Leo XIII, “the highest of natural endowments.” We are not only free to choose between good and evil, but we are also responsible for those choices. 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On Monday, July 7, which marked the feast of the Translation of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía celebrated the holy sacrifice of the Mass at Canterbury Cathedral with hundreds in attendance, including the Vatican’s cricket team.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8926444407576579920</guid><category>Left</category><title>Camp Mystic, Texas Floods and Grieving for Lost Children...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/mcdonald-camp-mystic</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>There is no emotional pain on earth greater than that of a parent who has lost a child. As we read the news of so many deaths from the Texas floods, those of the children hit particularly hard. That so many of them were attending a Christian camp is particularly troubling to many: If this is how God rewards innocent children gathered to praise his name, what does Christian faith even mean? 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What might seem ho-hum at first shows itself on closer examination to be breathtaking...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4594391481566088322</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Ascension vs. Human Composting...</title><link>https://www.denvercatholic.org/the-ascension-vs-human-composting</link><author>null@newadvent.org (George Weigel)</author><description>There are many reasons to regret the transfer of the Solemnity of the Ascension to the seventh Sunday of the Easter season. Among other things, the transfer shortens the Church’s time to reflect on this great feast, whose meaning has become ever more important in this cultural moment. What does the Ascension of the Lord mean? The Ascension means that humanity — the human nature assumed by the second Person of the Trinity at the Incarnation — has been incorporated into the life of God himself.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2635537567092551538</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Shares Message to Pilgrims at Historic Mass in Canterbury Cathedral...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/canterbury-catholic-mass-st-thomas-beckett-church-of-england</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Catholic faithful packed Canterbury Cathedral on Monday evening for a historic Mass, complete with a papal blessing and the Eucharistic liturgy celebrated by the apostolic nuncio to honor St. Thomas Becket and the translation of his relics in 1220. 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Archbishop Guy de Kerimel named Father Dominique Spina as chancellor and episcopal delegate for marriages, effective Sept. 1, according to a decree published June 2 on the archdiocese’s website...</description></item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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